Earthly marriage does not have a monopoly on love. But even though some in our culture believe as Justice Kennedy wrote that marriage “embodies the highest ideals of love,” we disagree. We affirm that God has ordained marriage to be the union of a husband and a wife which Jesus himself restated in Mark 10:6-8 and Matthew 19:4-5.
The days after the Supreme Court's ruling are like the days before it: God is seated on his throne in power and majesty-and one day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess him. Therefore, when the Holy Spirit changed our hearts, we came to know this: the gospel is costly and worth it. Christians loved, accepted, included and surrounded us with biblical truth while we were still sinners, thus modeling the Lord himself. But even prior to our conversion to Christ, God provided the love and care of Christians, people who became for us a new family, new brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers in Christ-who knew and loved us before we were safe to love. We understood that repentance meant fleeing from anything that embodied the temptations that we knew best and loved most. We accepted that following Jesus meant giving up everything. In 1999, when Jesus Christ revealed his saving grace and love to each of us, we learned that our unbelief, and the idolatrous sexual lusts that flowed from it, were no longer matters of personal choice.
The people you see celebrating the recent SCOTUS decision to redefine marriage (and with marriage, personhood) would have been us, not very long ago. This is the world that we, Christopher and Rosaria, helped build-a world pursuing dignity and equality. We locked arms with our LGBT loved ones and friends and believed that they were truly and honestly our family of choice. The world with its rainbow flags waving proudly and plentifully was our world. The Supreme Court of the United States of America has made gay marriage legal in all 50 states and much of our country celebrates.
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